Whats does @Override mean?

The override annotation is mostly for us. It's marking a method that we're overriding from a higher class our class is inheriting. The reason we would do this is to define the exact perimeters that our class needs from this already written method. Take for instance the onCreate() method we use from the android sdk: in it's simplest form, onCreate() is only telling our app the least information to create a start layout for the app. We override it, or redefine it, to let the app know exactly what we need laid out at the start of the app. Since the onCreate() method is already written in it's most basic form, we override it with the exact perimeters that our app uses, and mark it with @Override, so that anyone reading our code knows to refer to the parent class for the most vague definition of what we've redefined to be more specific for our use. Does that clear things up?

Nicolas